BAE Systems IR Imaging Systems, IRIS has completed qualification testing of its Lightweight Thermal Weapon Sight (LTWS) and the test results have been reviewed and accepted by the U.S. Army Communications - Electronics Command (CECOM)

In the midst of Department of Defense (DOD) concern about the transfer of infrared technology into the commercial sector, in December, DOD sponsored a three-day workshop titled “From Tanks to Tumors: A Workshop on the Applications of IR Imaging and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) Image Processing for Early Detection of Breast Cancer.”

Infrared imaging in medicine may receive new recognition and funding from the newest institute of the National Institutes of Health: the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB